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7 reasons why robotics companies should be using simulators
During my long experience at Pal Robotics developing humanoid robots, I learned just how much a good simulator can help speed up the development and maintenance processes of robot building. To my su...
28 December 2015, by
Ricardo Téllez
Robot Race to Hawaii Contest
The Robot Race to Hawaii is a robotics contest where participants program a humanoid Nao robot to run a 10-meter race in the shortest time possible. The whole competition is run in a Webots simula...
24 November 2015, by
Ricardo Téllez
The Construct: Robot simulations in the cloud
The Construct is a Barcelona based startup created to simplify the simulation of robots. The goal is to allow anybody to simulate complex robots and environments with minimal knowledge, without having...
20 October 2015, by
Ricardo Téllez
Gazebo gets better at flying and diving
As another result of the exciting DARPA Robotics Challenge, Gazebo has improved its capabilities in the aeronautics and hydrodynamics fields. We expect these changes to benefit the way UAVs and UUVs a...
15 June 2015, by
Open Source Robotics Foundation
Simulating in MapleSim
By Ilia Baranov
Robots are expensive and they usually depend on batteries. What if you want to run an experiment with 100 robots, running for 10 hours? To help answer this question, ROS has built ...
19 May 2015, by
Clearpath Robotics
Would you feel sorry for a simulated robot? Study shows people empathize more with the real thing
In the future, robots will be in our daily lives: homes, schools, offices, factories, even restaurants. The field of social robotics looks at how these robots can interact with people socially, just l...
Gzweb for mobile platforms
Gzweb Mobile from OSRF on Vimeo.
During her Gnome Outreach Program for Women internship with OSRF, Louise Poubel made Gzweb work on mobile platforms by designing a mobile-friendly interface and imp...
05 May 2014, by
Open Source Robotics Foundation
CloudSim-Ed: A robotics MOOC prototype
CloudSim-Ed from OSRF.
During her Gnome Outreach Program for Women internship with OSRF, Ana Marian Pedro worked on CloudSim-Ed a prototype for a massive open online robotics course built with Goog...
30 April 2014, by
Open Source Robotics Foundation
ROS 101: Drive a Husky!
In the previous ROS 101 post, we showed how easy it is to get ROS going inside a virtual machine, publish topics and subscribe to them. If you haven’t had a chance to check the out all the previous...
21 March 2014, by
Clearpath Robotics
ShanghAI Lectures: Wenwei Yu “A Simulation Study on Reflexive Responses during Walking”
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-17
In this guest lecture, Wenwei Yu from Chiba University, Japan, introduces his approach to assistive technology and talks about (simulation) experime...
30 January 2014, by
Nathan Labhart
Real-time heart beat simulator visualizes pulsation and disease on a Laptop PC
This simulator can represent the complex pulsation of the heart. It is being developed by a group including members from National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center and Riken.
Until n...
05 November 2012, by
DigInfo TV
